Gravity Falls Lost Legends: Pines Triplets Edition (Original Version)

Don't Dimension It

Mabel stood proudly on a log in the cheery woods as the warm sunlight flooded her face. She had a rather large backpack sitting on her shoulders.

"Ah! Finally, a family camping trip!" she exclaimed. "I'm going to name every squirrel and eat every dangerous kind of oak!"

"We're not camping, Mabel. This is a scientific expedition!" Ford said from behind her, with Stan, Dipper, and Mara in tow.

He then held up the blaster he was carrying, which was filled with pink alien adhesive.

"We're searching for leftover multidimensional rips from Weirdmageddon to patch up with alien adhesive" he explained momentously. "So keep an eye out for anything that seems...love crafty."

Dipper turned towards his uncle.

"Great Uncle Ford, what was it like in the Multiverse anyway?"

"Confusing. One minute, you're breathing air, the next you're breathing fingers. Think you found a sandwich? It's a planet. You just ate a planet!" Ford responded with a rather grave tone, as if that had actually happened to him before.

Dipper took out a pad of paper and started to scribble down notes.

"Multiverse tips...don't...eat...planets...got it."

"Just be careful where you point that nerd gun, brainiac" Stan scolded his brother, shoving the gun's aim away from Dipper. "We need these kids back on the bus in three days, and I want 'em going home in one piece."

Ford sighed.

"Stanley, under your watch, the triplets fell into a bottomless pit" he pointed out. "I'm not sure you should be giving caretaker advice."

Stan's eyes widened with outrage.

"What? I'm the best caretaker ever!" he exclaimed. "I've taught these kids valuable life lessons. Like how to hotwire cop cars!"

"It's true!" Mara piped in. "I once hijacked a cop car, went eighty four miles over the speed limit, and then crashed the vehicle right into the police station!"

Ford raised an eyebrow, then looked back at his brother.

"What's Dipper's real name?"

Stan's eyes widened in alarm for a brief moment, before he crossed his arms over his chest knowingly.

"Diptholomew! I don't know! Bottom line, I could caretaker circles around you!"

Behind them, Mabel held up a bright green leaf.

"Hey, Grunkle Stan, this oak makes my face feel funny!"

"Not now, sweetie" Stan shouted back, before turning back towards his brother.

Meanwhile, Mara tapped Mabel on the shoulder.

"Hey, Mabel, have you seen my mind-reading device?" she asked. "The one I lent you three weeks ago?"

Mabel turned towards her sister with a huge grin plastered across her face.

"What? That old thing? It was old and rusty, so I had it shipped up to Silicon Valley to be fixer'd up!"

Mara put her hands on her hips narrowed her eyes.

"Mabel, what did you really do with it?"

Mabel laughed nervously, and ran her hand up and down her other arm.

"Well, you know how you start off in one place and then end up in another, and then forget what you were originally doing, so you have to go back to the first place..."